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Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: -1
Support Score: 3
  • No PartB
  • No conflicts policy: -1
  • Grant maker support: +3
Overall GiG Score: 2 ?

COWBRIDGE MUSIC FESTIVAL 

Cowbridge Music Festival is an annual festival, held in September in the Vale of Glamorgan, of chamber, instrumental and vocal music, jazz and folk music. Providing opportunities for young musicians it includes an extensive schools outreach programme, concerts given by young musicians and the Chamber Music Seminar. The Festival Fringe was started in 2018 to give opportunities to local music groups
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Positives:

  • The charity has received modest backing from a grant maker
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy
  • One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
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£k		 Spending
£k		 Surplus/
Deficit		 Fundraising
Cost £k		 Total
Funds £k		 Unrestricted
Funds £k		 Mths
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31/12/22£89£81£8n/an/an/an/an/a15
31/12/21£65£64£1n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/12/20£19£11£8n/an/an/an/an/a15
31/12/19£83£84£-1n/an/an/an/an/a15
31/12/18£79£72£6£0£0£0n/a018
31/12/17£66£70£-4£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/16£113£103£10£0£0£0n/a00
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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 9 years

www.cowbridgemusicfestival.co.uk

info@cowbridgemusicfestival.co.uk

01446773824

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
GiG Classification
  • Performing and visual arts
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Bridgend, Cardiff, Vale Of Glamorgan,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 15 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months		 To be used for
The Foyle Foundation - Small Grants
£6,000 10/07/2023
towards core costs of delivering the 2023 festival
The Foyle Foundation - Small Grants
£5,000 08/07/2021
towards the return of the music festival in 2021 (awarded grant in response to coronavirus)
Fenton Arts Trust - Grant to Cowbridge Music Festival
£2,000 11/03/2021
CMF Young Artists' Recital 2021: promoting two Welsh artists at the start of their chareers, pianist Luke Jones and composer Sarah L Lewis.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 03/07/2015, number: 1162524
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
7 returns made; all on time
Main office

Brynawel
Trerhyngyll
Cowbridge
CF71 7TN

Objectives

TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC IN THE APPRECIATION OF MUSIC AND OTHER ARTS, PRINCIPALLY BY ARRANGING AN ANNUAL FESTIVAL.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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